{"quotes":[{"text":"Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle!Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of the spirit? Does this city not reek of the fumes of slaughtered spirit?Do you not see the souls hanging like dirty, limp rags? – And they also make newspapers from these rags!Have you not heard how the spirit has here become a play with words? It vomits our repulsive verbal swill! – And they also make newspapers from this verbal swill.They pursue one another and do not know where. They inflame one another, and do not know why. They rattle their tins, they jingle their gold.They are cold and seek warmth in distilled waters; they are inflamed and seek coolness in frozen spirits; they are all ill and diseased with public opinion.All lusts and vices are at home here; but there are virtuous people here, too, there are many adroit, useful virtues.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["emotions","lust","spirit","vice","virtue"],"id":1194,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?","author":"Hannah More","tags":["curse","indolence","nothing","plague","vice","worse"],"id":3515,"author_id":"Hannah+More"},{"text":"In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.","author":"Émile Zola","tags":["paris","rentafoil","vice"],"id":3749,"author_id":"%C3%89mile+Zola"},{"text":"...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and cared for it and loved it, and has been so beguiled by the body and its passions and pleasures that nothing seems real to it but those physical things which can be touched and seen and eaten and drunk and used for sexual enjoyment; and if it is accustomed to hate and fear and avoid what is invisible and hidden from our eyes, but intelligible and comprehensible by philosophy - if the soul is in this state, do you think that it will escape independent and uncontaminated?","author":"Socrates","tags":["addiction","faithlessness","godlessness","sin","vice"],"id":4745,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice.I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.","author":"Stephen Fry","tags":["americans","depression","depression-humor","happiness","marriage-advice","morality","narcissism","oscar-wilde","pride","relationships","self-help","self-improvement","self-pity","sin","sins","the-key-to-happiness","vice"],"id":5960,"author_id":"Stephen+Fry"},{"text":"There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["accomodation","chaos","corruption","disparity","epiphany","illegal","irony","law","legal","observations","paradox","unavoidable","vice","vile","waste"],"id":20815,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"I live in vice. I eat twice - with a advice.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["advice","eat","live","vice","with"],"id":23425,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["beauty","evil","face","goodness","heart","inner-beauty","spiritual-insights","spiritual","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","ugliness","vice","virtue"],"id":23992,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands.","author":"Jennifer Birkett","tags":["art","corpse","corruption","mask","seduction","squalor","thrills","vice"],"id":24647,"author_id":"Jennifer+Birkett"},{"text":"Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual. ","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["moments","vice","habitual "],"id":25289,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":167,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}